In my experience, people that have profoundly anti-scientific beliefs have always been such; whether their purported trigger is Jenny McCarthy or an odd alignme

In my experience, people that have profoundly anti-scientific beliefs have always been such; whether their purported trigger is Jenny McCarthy or an odd alignment of Jupiter, it's hard to know if it's even relevant- the problem is that they don't have the skillset to make rational choices. And I just don't see a Sokal-style hoax making a whit of difference in their minds, as there are a million other things that could do the same. In other words, their feelings of anti-science came first. Whatever reason provided is ex post facto confabulation. Meanwhile, the sciences themselves need this kind of scrutiny to stay scientific. I'm open to being wrong. But I think it is a mistake to put too much weight to the 'we should be careful what the people who never use science anyway' consider.